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Cyber Scarecrow

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wruza ◴[] No.40716002[source]
Why does malware “stop” if it sees AV? Sounds as if it wanted to live, which is absurd. A shady concept overall, cause if you occasionally run malware on your pc, it’s already over.

Downloading a random exe from a noname site/author to scare malware sounds like another crazy security recipe from your layman tech friend who installs registry cleaners and toggles random settings for “speed up”.

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1. RockRobotRock ◴[] No.40721679[source]
Even back in my script kiddy days, 10 years ago, I remember RATs and cryptors would all have a kill switch option if it detected it was running on a VM.